ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,703, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Data transmission protocol" was invented by Michael Pogue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Juraj Svec (Livermore, Calif.) and Shao-Cheng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data transmission protocols are disclosed. For example, a receiving device is selected to send retransmission requests when data packet loss occurs, and then a unicast transmission of data packets may be sent to that selected receiving device. Other receiving devices may be configured to receive the unicast transmission as sent to the selected receiving de...